So far, we've focused on making global edits in Lightroom, and making…black and white images completely black and white, and just focusing on the whole…thing, and it is possible to do some selective editing in Lightroom.…I could take, say, the Brush tool here and I can choose a particular size of my…brush, and either paint a given area, and then adjust the parameters of that, or…paint multiple areas by Shift+clicking, and this is fine, but not only do I have…a lot of limitations as far as my control goes, but you'll see if I show the…masked area, it isn't really accurate. It's going beyond the eye, and I can tune…that up, but there's a lot of guesswork involved here.…

So, Lightroom has a tremendous number of strengths, but selective editing is…really not one of them, it's much better for global edits.…So, this is a good time to move over to Photoshop, because that's an area that it really shines.…Now, before we do that let's convert this back to color, which is really easy to…move between states in Lightroom, because the history lives with the file.…

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4/15/2013

Shoot in color, but think in black and white. In this course, Adobe Photoshop Senior Product Manager Bryan O'Neil Hughes shares his favorite techniques for transforming color photographs into black and white, a technique that provides more creative options than using your camera's black-and-white mode. Learn how to prepare and fine-tune your photographs in Lightroom, and then move them into Photoshop to take advantage of its nondestructive adjustment layers. The course also introduces techniques for using Photoshop to adjust the color of video clips.

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